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. , . ~ 4 ^ d r. dr. dr. dr. or - )13. five 11 . - 9 st ' 1101,1/(0 to to till ; 3 dr. di • 4, aiid vhicl), -Dior' GENERAL. SARAZLY. IPESTMINSTERS ELFCTORSI AtiVl • 2he follo w i ng i s a L et t e r o f G enera l S ARIA ZIN'S, w ' h u!ch he h as pu bli s h e d i n consequ e nce o f th e L e tt e r 4 3 : 11 appeared in the French Papers, signed by SARAZIN. Yesterday a very numerous Meeting of the Elec tors, of Westminster took place• at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, to celebrate by a Public Dinner, the liberation of Sir FRANCIS : BURDETT from the Tower. Sir Fraricis entered the room at five [TRANSLATION.] COt t y °P A LETTER rnom GENERAL SARRAZIN TO I.II S UNCLE, MR. FICHER, A MERCH .NT IN LEEDS, o'clock, attended by Mr. Wishart, Major Cartwright, Mr. Friend, and others. As the cloth was removing, Mr. WISHART in formed the company, that Sir Francis Burdett was then drinking their ,healths, and was glad to see them there that day. This intimation was rapturously received. The CHAIRMAN then addressed the Meeting, and adverted to the condutt of the House of Commons .` MOST HONOURED UNCLE, :AS the l e tt e r att r ibuted to Madame Sarrazin must have have alarmed you, I hasten to write to you = in order to traoquilize. you with regard to the fate of my spouse. " Previous to my departure from Boulogne; I a ° °k car e to ma k e a so lid prov i s i on f or h er su pp or t, and remitted her a year's allowance in advance. I e nt lrl give - you farther information on this head at " le Present moment.. . 1 Madame Sarrazin 'is in possession of her fami ,Property, which I never touched. A w ell-fur "tied house and wardrobe, a number of jewels, and other valgabiel, completely attest the sincerity of my attentions, and my attachment for her and my son. b Buonaparte may confiscate what I have left at 440 410gne ; Aladame Sarrdzin, I . assure you, does 3:l °t stand in need of it. I .' l challenge Buonaparte to publish the letters writte n to my son. Buonaparte wishes to get that 1 1 '"In within his g rasp. This is the objeot of the l ter, which was eithc.r fabricvd, or extorted by Ilie violence of his agents from Madanie Sarrazin ; a n _ excellent, but delicate and timid woman., 4 ‘ Buonaparte snakes my wife say, that I have ten deranged these seven rears. , He represents h er 3% a native of Switzerland, though, he perfetily Zell knows that she is an Engksh woman, having en born at Exeter. during the last Session of Parlament; observing, that none of their aelions excited so much disgust Ai the confinement of one individual in Newgate; and , their worthy Representative in the Tower, for what they deemed a libel, and a breach of Privilege, frOm which they had not long been liberated. The Meeting of that day was held in• consequence of the wishes of f a number of inhabitants, who desired an opportunity of testifying their esteem for their worthy Repre sentative, and their approbation of his ConduCt. • He concluded by giving The Law, the King, and the People; which was drunk with latt4 .applause. The band next played God save the King." The next toast given was, • The Liberty of the . Press ; which was drunk with. applause. Mr. Was tiAliT gave— Privilege and Prerogative according to Law ; " My reply to fluonaparte will not appear until th e 6th of August, in consequence of a delay in the li r , i nt'ug. I shell take care to set.d you a copy of it. :Ile following fad, which not staied . in it, will finish you with a key to the hatred which Batt ilaparte„bears towards me. Ten years ago, Madame Murat, proposed to me rn do as .many other Generals had done, who had 4lstnissed the wives they bad married in foreign F,thintries for the ' purpose of espousing French J-4dies. This was at a grand dinner which she gave, followed by a ball. Madame Campan, ac- - ( .o rdin g to public rumour, Buonapartis mistress of. the revels, was there, with a number cif the most fascinati ng /her nymphs. I answered that I was an honest man, and w0...1d keep my wife. On my r eturn from .St. Domingo, whither,l was sent only I n the expetation that I snould there find my g r ave, I ytas coldly received, and given to under stand,,_ that the re li g ion a s we ll as th e education of Aladame Sarrazin, prevented her being received at } ?nurt, M a d ame ' M ura t a l so refused to receive My spouse signified a wish to visit her pa tents, who reside in Switzerland; and Buonaparte h iving ordered me to set off to take the command I n the island of Cadsand—to dire& her to join me, have been to sacrifice both her and my son to climate much more pestilential than that of the lsle .of Walcheren. From that moment I adopted fo rmed resolution to quit the service of Buonaparte, and 2rrned such arrangements as to make them late in- "Pendent of mine. But for my wishes to atcorn, Plish this objeEt, I should have been in England up /P.11'439 0f a year ago. What enrages Buonaparte against me is, that he cannot tell the public that I am a coward, a Plunderer, or a blockhead. My remarks will prove I t o him th at I a m n e ither a madma n , nor a bad husband. ." Though my father-in-law, in consequence of ttts losses in trade, has been able to give sue only all the dowry promised me, I am not, on that ac toont, the less faithful .to my engagements. - ` I Neither policy, nor the: desire of riches, shall e ver make me seek for a divorce. As Buonaparte causes all letters to be opened, 1 : was requisite that my correspondence shc;taid, in :Yery resped, be so concluded, as riot only to occa 'l°ll no suspicions, but also to dissipate such as aught be occasioned by malice or indiscretion. I ,nthv that Buonaparte is no less cunning than be is reked. I had to regulate my actions and my writ .ll,gs accordingly. He has been my dupe ; and it is the mortification he feels on 'that score, no less than c l a f6ar of seeing himself completely exposed, in I , 44 equence of the knowledge Which I have bad ,l'ese fifteen years of all that , has passed in the 143tterior of his family, which has been the cause I the ridiculous reports he has published respect -ng tile; " Until I can have the pleasure of seeing you : i d Your family, .I beg you will accept the homage my sincere devotion. " I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) SARRA'ZIN." which was received with enthusiasm. WISHART said, he would not enumerate the names of those who, by their virtuous conduct, wished to remove existing evils, and ameliorate the condition of he people. , Their liberties had been a - sailed by those who were the enemies to Reform, and Who exclaimed, when their corruption was attacked, like those who opposed an ancient Reformer, " Great is Diana of Ephesus." Cam.►en and Sydney did not escape calumny, he observed, neither did he wort by Representativvf Westminster escape attack from the pens of the venal, and the tongues of those who were interested in corruption, and therefore the good and virtuous ought to unite in support of the common cause. It was necessary for the purpose of unanimity to bear with those who did not differ with us on material points, and he hoped that the Meeting would shew to their enemies, that they did not meet for .the purpose of anarchy and confusion, and that they were not to be intimidated by threats, but that they met for, the good of the country. , He would not ,take up any further time of the Meeting, but conclude with giving SPORTLVG. INTELLIGENCE. SALISBURY RACES, juLy 27. FRIDAY. Si The Subscription Plate, Fifty Pounds. Mr wi •.• Mildmay's b. h. Orton, s yrs C. Gooclibun 2 lf I A • Turner's h. c. 4 yrs I'. Dilly - 3 2 Martin' i s b. c. Carthagenian, 3 yrs - - 3. 2 3 SAME NAY. A f i. A Sweepstakes. Ten Guineas each. • .igg's ch. c. tconiana, 3 yrs T. Dilly - Air, Goddard's b. c. Trump, 4 yrs W. Sawyer, . Mr; ', Douglas's C. 4 yrs. A, Uouverie's c. %Vindsor, 4 yrs. "" 4 r. Long's c. Tortoise, 4 yrs. Letters Of th e 27th and Papers of the 23d of June have been received from Ahcairt: They state that 1 4; 'unt Sofachet was besieging the fortress of Tortola, , :Lac Donald that of Tarritga, that. Joseph Bum-fa rile was marchin g against Valencia, and that his anguard, of 6000 men, had. already arrived at du tnea. - Thelette:s also mention, that Valencia was ° be atta c k e d i n t h ree diffe r e n t p o ints at the same t same by 30,000 men. It , appears by some of the teletters that General O'Donnell having used some I ,,YritY, in order to recruit and vupply his tr o ops wit h money, had fallen into disgrace ; but as the nece ssity t b ecame o b v i ou s, h opes were entcrtlined i o l t a proper understand;ng would take place, it be l! agreed on all bands that no person was so fit for 64 .4 command. the health of Sir Francis Burdett ; which was succeeded by the most fervent applause, which continued for some minutes. .Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then rose, and-spoke to the fullowing effeEt :—" Gentlemen, I- consider this as One of the proudest and happiest periods of my life. I have been always ready to acknowledge and to act upon this principle, that, next after endeavouring to do some service .in the situation where you have placed me, one great *a with rne has been an meet wall, and I hope io merit, your approbation. Indeed I know of no other method of deserving and. obtaining your app►obation, but that of securing the applause of my own Mind ; and give me lease to say, that I mist I shall never be boned aside trop serving you, by any prospect of personal adVa, tap on the one hand, or by any mode oftlireat or mini inidation on the other. -I! is a great satisfaction to me, Gentlemen, to fee; a consciousness in my own' mind of havin4 endeavoured to tatil the great trust you have placed in me to the b .st of my ; mil I have the satisfaction to know, that the great cause of Parliamentary Reform, which we are all united in considering as -the• great object of our efforts, has made great advances in all parts Of the country, and I trust will finally prove triumphant. It was imputed to us as a fault, and that even by some, individuals, whom I believe men of respecta bili►y, that we (lid not attach ourselves to any par ty ; nay some have even gone so far as to assert, that we are always endeavourng to calumniate every public character. Btit, Gentlemen, •is it ca lumny to speak the truth of public men ? Let those who make such assertions point ,out to us the characters so calumniated, and then only will they be entitled to bring such a charge against" uS. lam well- aware that there are .honest men,' who hive been the dupes of the dealers in party—Of those men who only quarrel with one-another, not about principle, but for power and emolument ; and I haVe been severely found fault with by a friend of Mine, on a former occasion, for having, as he 1 .1 thought, attacked all play with too much severity. I But, Gentlemen, my censure was only confined to fi that party spirit which considers men, not measures; in other words, to party without public principle, where all is compromise, and principle is despised. I say, that the prevalerr.v or such party spirit is the, high road to the destruction of any peope.-1-lere, Gentlemen, I beg leave to call your attention to a speech lately published, and which purported to be pronounced in the House of Lords by one of the heads of those parties, which, however opposed in other matters, were yet list Session united in this, in supporting their privileges against the people.— These united parties could hardly be called a Cer terra, but they might at least be called Bfrons.— The speech to which I alluded purports to be the speech of Earl Grey, and 'to be taken by a short hand writer—thougn I no not mean to say that it really was. the speech which he delivered. In it there is a vast deal of specious liberality, mixed up however, with copious abuse of those who are called :he enemies of all parties. At the same time the Noble Laid attempts to conciliate, as well as he can, the former doarines on the subiect of • Parlia mentary Reform,. with the new practice and doc trines of the Whigs on that subject. The. Noble Lord is also represented as accusing. some persons with wishing to subvert the Constitution, under the ereircce and mask of Reform. Now, Gentlemen,! sure I am that none of those whom I haveatted. with, hate Med on this principle. I never heard' any demand mule by them but what is moderate— what is sanctioned by the law ; and It'e who pre tends to be wiser- than the law, must be arrogant, not modetate. Ido not mean to comment at great ff length on this laboured, but sophtatical and futile speech but there is one gnat lailacy in it, on the subject Of what are term e d, th e P r i v ile ges o f P ar li a : , w h at ! J etty i s an erbltrary pnweren IMP' e: ment.', Now we argue not against the powers of :. I,..sey i Otero is no such thing in the C: , .:•:,.,. Parliament, but against those powers whirl) they . nor couotryi One power, however, teas sell ens have unjustly • assumed. The . siJeecti - contained ' joyed by ,its, and that was trial by Jury. • This the another gross fallacy, namely,-that Supreme Poser - people have most wisely kept in teeir cuvti hands,. must be•lodged sotne.where, Now, this I deny, for and I trust they will never relitiquisleit. But even ours- bras a Government of Checks, and the exercise this Mestimable- institution is liable •to 'corruption ; of supreme uhcurtailed power be 'any part, had al- • for the form may be kept sip while the spirit is gone, ways led to disturbances, and endangered the exist-' -and the trial by, Jury, instead of being our safe tece of the whele. The final andeiltanate- . supreme .guard and protection, may become the grand masked poweeis in the, people alone. , This is the doetrine ' grievahce by which alt our other grievances may be laid ciewn to us in the Bill of Rights, this . is the stipported. To return, however,' to the subjee:t of, greateonstitutional law of the-country. The people Parliamentary Privilege, it said by some, that, do, certainly delegate_ large portions of Rower to their though if may have been absurd in a late instance, Governors; the, Exscutive Power, for instance, is I yet it is no argument a g ainst the use of any thing, vested , in, the Crowd, and gr e at it m u st be' ; but that it has been abused to bad purposes. This may even the King . himself - cannot do any of -those be all very true as a general principle, but where was acts which were lately s .done by. the House of the necessity. or the_ pretence for the mode of pro- Commons. It has been the constant practice of ceeding that was adopted ?• Is it no: perfectly evident all the parties who look up to pow•er and emoln- that this alleged privilege of Parliament, when direct. meet through the -. medium of the Borough-mon • ed and conjoined with the power of, the Crow n,opese ger interest, to hold up the power of the King-, rating - on•a c o r ru p t H ouse of Cominotis, may be as the . only ()hied of dread. But surely the iii- made an engine of oppressi o n, - an d craz y f i na ll y terest• of the Crown is t h e same w i t h t h a t o f the all our liberties, together with the tri tl by Jury 0 People, and the ;King's' Throne can only be sted- While we consider 'ourselves as free, we feel that. fast when fixed . on the affections of the People, We llaVe various duties to perform ; but when once' and must be insecure when planted on the narrow we are, slaves, wp must be rin mind that a slave Borough-monger interest. We have been lately t has but one.duty to perform, and th it is obedience, told in the House of Commons, that Kings never •II fear that I have- still left i n m e so muc h o f t h e love Parliaments, be cause they-act , as a check on spirit of an Eoglishman, that Isbell never be able the power of time Crown. However, this may. have .to bruit; my mind to that condition ; and I else feel,. been applicable to foriner Parliaments, yet of Lite' that . 0, I should tell e f would I - whet tall with my fill we have found Parliaments rather - checks on the ing clammy, thanbeelevatedob itsruina: Gentlemen, libertiei of the people ; and - I defy any man to th.e.feelingS which you now express, Ise , Q low beeed point out an instance lately of their checkiegiethe. hopes, and I trust that they ,well be instrumental in power of the Crown. ' 'Their jealousy is no *ger l.reteinting time liberties of the country, end placing - directed to that object, but rather against the people , them agein op . the immoiable rock of th e Coosuit...itiou, themselves, who have . so long been duped by I The tonvittion may ,have been very proper, an d neat , patriots—l mean those factious men lath . ° I cesearkly folidwing from the law of libel as at pre-eut; have carried . their insolence to - . such a height as tot understood and acted on. ' - ,- threaten both the King and the People. The pre- Having made these observations on a few of the e : roaativesof the Crown, as well as the rights of the evils ender which we labour, I now beg leave: to : 0 . People, are sanctioned-by law, and it isonly this Bo- tell you tor myself, Wei in whatever situation I map rough Monster that pretends to have no limit in be placed, whether elevated in the opinions of the . his powers., Lord Grey then goes on to say, 'that Electors of Westminater, or, it, from any miscone . he supported the cause of Reform in his.youth, and • ception, I should be so unfortunate as to lose .their that he does so still, though with . some difference • • good opinion, I trust I shall .always,.be found en. of feeling, which he attrib u teS to th e exper i ence of deavouring, to the utmost of -my duty, to restore., age. But surely, .if no man can be pledged to any and renovate the rights and libe r ti es pof the people . measure because he is a little o ld er t o -d a y t h an h e • England. flieve only to add, that ,; hope no good-'' was yesterday, then such men destroy all piablie cen- men will ever despaiteof ultimate success. i •......, fidence. Principles remain the same, though men One remark more, and then I have done; let tite, may, and too often do, alter as they'grow older. The do all we can to keep alive the spark of liberty in our man, however, who changeS his principles from own breasts, as the only mean's of once more regains.: one period of life to another, stamps that character ing the full enjoyment of the rights of .Englishmen, :e. , of vacillatioe on himself, that prevents all mankind .Sir F. Butte:4'lr then sat: down. . . • e from' placing any confidence in him in future.* The•Coetemara then gave— e. e ',-• ..: In another..part of the . speech, the Noble Lord is represented as saying, that all out great men., since which was drunk with three time three. the Revolution, have supported theasseried privilege's Mr. Wardle, the vigilant detector of abuses, of Parliament ; and here. I cannot help observing, being then given, received with the same honour. ... that the Whigs have been even More forward than' Mr. WARDLE rose, . and. after thanking the c0in....: their opponents in this matter; they have done all parry for time honour they had done him, paid the the dirty 'work, and have even gone greater lengths highest compliments to the manly" and uptight e0n.... than the other side in extolling the powers of the i duct of Si' - Francis Buidett, whOie admirable speebh -House. of _Commons. The Noble Lord .had .said. fbad entirely precluded him team saying w hat he the ptivileges of Parliament were maintained by Otherwise intended. He therefore resolved not to . Mr. l?ox and Mr. Pitt, and I have lately had put into l detain them, and thereby avoid The imputation of piesumptuousness. He cbrigratul a tid t h e El e Ct ort my hands an ex- raet from - Giffard' s Lif e .of M r . P i t t , , in which.he is quoted as saying,. that th e p ower of on the judicious election they had inatie in having '- irnprisooment in the House of Commons is a subjeat the Hon. Baronet for their Represeetetive, and ap of much weight. That by acting not only as parties, . plauded their conduta . towards, him, on ee ; rest or a., bet as Judges, they may seem to place themselves tion'from. confinement, which was a satisfaction n o t . above law, and to violate that in v iolability which .i confined to them alooe,. but pervicleW tie whole . they claim to themselves. Such was the language kingdom. He concluded, with making his sincere i of Mr. ,Pitt. He therefore controverted` the current , acktiowledgments• to. the company for the repeaied dodrine. of the power of Parliament, and maintained .co r k s of kindness, they had conferred op him, and; the very dedrines' which I endeavoured to illukrate trusted that he 'never . should lOrteit their pod at great& length last Session, and by which I in- opinion, - . . 'corned the displeasure of the House of Commons. The following toasts were then given from the :. Bat to return; it is very true that arti'.s views .very Chair, and drank with applause : often change according to circumstances. Of' this ._ Lord •Erskine, and , Trial by Jury. we can all - recolled too many examplqs, which have Ireland in our heartS, and hdi Persecutors in our remern. produced such distrust in public men. According 1 brance. tc, the Italian '.proVerb, " the man who is in the Major Cartwright, and Parliamentary Reform. public square views things very differently when he Major CARTWRIGHT then .stood up and said, th a t enters the - palace." We• all kn o w t hat the m a n who stands in the valley has a. very different prose . as they were pleased to honour him by conceding pea from him who has mounted the height. - his name with a cause Which was se dear to th e A great deal is also said about wild theory and site- - , country, it was. his wish -tooffer a f e w o b servat i ons . upon it, Lbw - from the lateness of the h ou r a n d the • culation, and a profession is made of pet-eta wil-' lingeess to adopt any praelical Reform. But now disposition of the coinpatiy, he should ,not trouble . I I can there .be such a thing as foresight without spe. them with a long *old sermon. We, had l ate l y heard a great deal about a rational arid moderate R e - ' culation ? Why, if a man shuts . his eyes, and walks 1 form and he always wished for a rational R e f o r m , Re blindfold about his room, he is a practic a l man, • ' but he never wished a moderate Ref orm ., no r ever and no speculator... Your true practical - man is like w the ghost of Banquo—" He has no speculation in ould. He wanted the British Co nst i tut i on , an d no more, 'no'r nothing less. -He wished the e ntir e his eyes."--I wish, however, to be a speculating man, to look with the eyes of the law, and in. so destruction of the Borough-monger- system, and . trusted he should see' it acco m pli s hed ; but apt doing I shall - find in our statute book all, and could never be done by a moderate refo'rrn, as, those more titan all we now claim a s th e right of the . whose interest it was to continue it were a l w a y s people. The Whigs have also talk e d of the ne cessity of making resistance to pop u l a r clam ou r.— i guarded and cautious. He was desi rous t h at a cur - Now!ea idea of reform should go abroad f r om that Meet were we all recollect that at th e time . when they tea and the people, whose intenti on s were a l wa y s, charged with not having re d ee m e d those tog s and `good, would have their met e s upon th e su bj ec t, pledges they bad given on time' subject of Reform, and their hopes _animated. -He .proposed as a - they told us by . way of excuse that the people did 'not ask for Reform ; but surely it was not . the characteristic .of a good Statesman to re- , " Representation without Rotten Doroughs, Defence with, toast, - - .. out For'kuers, and Law without military execution." • serve - his political benefits- till they - were wrung .• . from his reludant . hands : that man was not to : 'Drunk with three times three.. , -• fter a number of observations that exhausted the plume himself on his honesty, wh o did not p a y ; his debts till they were demanded. But how are w e y e o.nglishmen f:the company, never forget English pre! y, he gave " M r. COBBETT, • a, to act in unison with men who say that th e y did and • not redeem their pledges f i t on e time, b ecause not ciples. . , called upon; and now tell us, when they ar e d Many .other toasts were given, but on proposing e- ! minded, that they refuse, because call e d f o r by p o pu- : the following—" The Duke of Norfolk, and may . lar clamour ? The truth is, ther e w as n o t ; a cr e a- the Aristocracy unite with him in defending the riahts of the .people," some distutbance arose, se tore so mean and base,who had not the magnanimity • p • . . to Sptirn and affed to despise what he called a populat veral persons objecting to any praise in the Ari•to. clamour ; and there was no one so low but he could erotic branch of the Constitution. As - however so di spit forth his venom against the people at large. Than : rect ama of levelling principles would have this there was no readier road todortune or (avow'. shewn too much of the cloven foot, the heads of the company contrived to smother ,this oppositio n t o They call us the mere mob ; you w o uld su pp ose from : their. lanpage that we are all met together. to - give .the toast, and. the Meeting seen utter br o k e . one another the itch. In another part of the Noble up.—Sir Francis Burdett affected a dispositien . to Lord's speech, lam named and called a misguided retire unobee . rv'ed, as he . escaped from the Tow: r, man.. But really, if the liberty or the life of a- man by entering his carriage from ; the door in Arundel but as soon as lie reached the Strand,- a is . to be sacrificed, what is it to us whethet it is }arty, who were doubtless stationed there for the dune by the House of Commons or the Crown? 1 purpose, took oft his horses, and drew him 41) tri atreet ; What we have to complain of is, that, a Power was exercised contrary to all law, contrary- to . corn, , um ph through Pall-Mall and St. James's-sq uare to • nion sense; and to the eternal principles o f j ust i ce ; his house in Piccadilly. . . . and whether such a power emanates from.the..Hou4e. ' - Some of the lower members of his Party, v, ho of Lords, -the .Commons, or. the CroWn, or. even . were not of importance sufficient to 'be admitted to from them .all united, is alike indifferent to me: the Dinner, endeavoured to produce -an illtenina - ' tion, but only -succeeded in bringing forth a few • candles. . . 8 t ' l . 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